SSGT Eugene D Rydstedt (1920-1944) - Find a Grave Memorial

SSGT Eugene D Rydstedt Veteran

Birth

5 Mar 1920

Death

29 Apr 1944 (aged 24)

Custer County, Nebraska, USA

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Memorial Park Cemetery

Skokie, Cook County, Illinois, USA Show Map

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Killed in a weather-related crash of RB-24E Liberator #41-28413 near Merna, Nebraska, while on a flight leg from Chicago to Denver.

Nine other Army personnel also perished:

Capt. Virgil D Anderson
Capt. Stanley M Foster
2nd Lt. Frank L Brown
2nd Lt. Warren C Karas
2nd Lt. Charles F Piel
Flt. Off. Rollin E Ryburn
Cpl. Adam J Kochan
Pvt. Edward J Jacobs
Pvt. Bruno C Oskar
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Enlisted October 15, 1941.
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Entered the service from Illinois; Service ID: 36300561.

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